"The word for a while has been that Portland is a hot bed of Linux and Open Source developers. It looks like they have decided to put that concentrated open source expertise to a new use: a conference dedicated to developers, with the goal of collaborating around some of the remaining hard problems. Oh, and, no, the conference is not exclusive to Portlanders or web-toed Pacific Northerwest denizens. In fact, the hope is that the conference will draw developers into the northwest to draw on the rich expertise available and also provide access to a wider cross section of developers that is present at some of the other conferences.
"One might ask, though, is one more conference one conference too many...?"
